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	Tax resistance - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Tax resisters are typically motivated by disagreement with the policies of the government or institution that is collecting the tax.
		Some resist taxes as a form of protest that communicates the strength of their opposition through an act of civil disobedience.
		In war-tax resistance circles in the United States it is sometimes remarked that there are as many ways to practice tax resistance as there are resisters.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Tax_resistance (1720 words)

	Schools Not Bombs War Tax Resistance Campaign
		War tax resistance is refusing to pay some or all of those federal taxes that contribute to military spending.
		War tax resistance is a powerful way to say NO to nuclear weapons and weapons testing, military aid and arms sales, the ludicrous Star Wars missile defense system, covert CIA violence-- to say NO to the militarization of the U.S. federal budget.
		Resisted taxes are often given away by resisters to meet human needs.
	members.cruzio.com /~fnv/info.htm (826 words)

	AlterNet: War Tax Resistance Made Simple (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		The beauty of this form of war resistance is that it is endlessly flexible, and there are people who have been able to maintain this protest for as long as they've been in control of their income.
		This is not to scare potential tax resisters, merely to underscore the level of commitment necessary to ride the peaks and troughs of this form of civil disobedience.
		When deciding to become a war tax resister, if you are committed to the effort, do some planning for the eventuality of tax collection and join a community of resisters, the biggest threat you face will be the worry of when they'll catch on to you, and not what you'll do when that happens.
	www.alternet.org /story.html?StoryID=15593 (2437 words)

	WarTax (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		For many persons of conscience, who cannot and will not cooperate in the killing which governments commit in their name, war tax resistance is a means to either symbolically or effectively withdraw their consent.
		War tax resisters generally do not object to taxation itself--but to the allocation of taxes for purposes that violate their mostly deeply held beliefs.
		Resisters may also choose to set refused money aside, in escrow accounts or alternative funds such as the CMTC Escrow Account, so that while the principle is available to them if the IRS collects, the interest earned on it can be used for human needs.
	www.coreymondello.com /WarTax.html (684 words)

	War Tax Resistance
		There has been instances of people refusing to pay taxes for war in virtually every American war, but it was not until World War II and the establishment of a permanent, centralized U.S. military (symbolized by the building of the Pentagon) was the modern war tax resistance movement born.
		War tax refusal succeeded in achieving nationwide publicity in 1949 with the issue of a Peacemaker press release titled “Forty-one Refuse to Pay Income Tax.” For almost twenty years Peacemakers was virtually the only consistent source of information and support for war tax resisters.
		War tax resistance gained nationwide publicity when Joan Baez announced in 1964 her refusal to pay 60 percent of her 1963 income taxes because of the war in Vietnam.
	www.warresisters.org /history_wtr.htm (2610 words)

	taxhistory
		Taxes repeatedly sparked revolts in England, and in France during the French Revolution of 1789, all of the French tax collectors were judged guilty of treason and sent to the guillotine.
		Temporary income taxes were also imposed on citizens by both sides of the Civil War in order to raise wartime funds, and in 1862 the Office of the Commissioner of Internal Revenue was created to collect wartime income tax funds.
		Taxes were expanded during World War I with revenue acts which created federal estate taxes as well as greater taxes on earnings by individuals and businesses.
	www.uic.edu /depts/lib/documents/resources/tax99/taxhistory.shtml (781 words)

	Anti-war activists promote 'tax resistance' as direct protest, 12 Apr 05
		Antimilitarist tax resisters are fond of noting Principle IV of the Nuremberg Principles, drawn up to punish some individuals who committed crimes against humanity during the Second World War.
		Since the modern war tax resistance movement began in the 1940s, less than 30 people have been jailed for resisting war taxes, the vast majority of them on convictions related to resistance such as refusing to provide records to the government and falsely filling out their W4 forms.
		Tax resistance is not a highly publicized component of the peace movement.
	www.notinourname.net /war/tax-resistance-12apr05.htm (1860 words)

	War-Tax Resistance -- Why Not?
		He declared: "Collecting more taxes than is absolutely necessary is legalized robbery." There is no doubt that today’s taxpayers are being robbed: parades of experts have testified that at least one-third of the military budget is sheer waste.
		Tax resistance is no light matter: it does not come easily, and it carries penalties.
		Legally, the war-tax resister is a lawbreaker, facing criminal charges which could result in a fine of up to $10,000 and/or a prison term of up to a year.
	www.religion-online.org /showarticle.asp?title=1879 (1658 words)

	War Tax Resistance
		Some tax resisters put their extra money into a savings account (preferably a small, local credit union and not something like Citibank) and use the interest generated by the money either as a fund to pay off fines and penalties, or donate it to charity.
		Another novel solution is the War Tax Resisters Penalty Fund, which serves as a communal pool to help resisters pay fines and penalties.
		Resistance to the telephone tax has a long and established history, and most phone companies will put up no fight to resisters who will not pay it, since they're just as happy to not collect taxes for the government.
	students.syr.edu /span/taxresist.htm (2267 words)

	War Tax Resistance Grows
		The humanitarian measure prohibits the use of weapons or methods of warfare that are directed against civilians or cannot discriminate between military targets and civilians; cause unnecessary suffering to combatants; violate the territory of neutral states; cause long-term and widespread damage to the environment or use poisonous substances.
		Resistance to the telephone tax has a long and distinguished history, and most phone companies will put up no fight to customers who will not pay it.
		In any event, tax resister groups estimate that tens of thousands of Americans don't pay their income taxes in order to protest U.S.-backed war efforts around the world.
	www.rense.com /general63/grpw.htm (658 words)

	The Peace Tax Seven - History of war tax resistance
		War tax resistance achieved nationwide and international publicity when the singer Joan Baez announced in 1964 her refusal to pay 60 percent of her 1963 income taxes because of the war in Vietnam.
		In Britain too the retired librarian, Quaker and war tax resister Arthur Windsor created a national stir when he was sentenced to jail for 28 days in HM Prison Gloucester in 1986.
		In the late 1990s three court cases were filed by Quaker war tax resisters using the First Amendment guarantee to the free exercise of religion in an attempt to have penalties against war tax resisters removed and permit them to pay only for non-military programs.
	www.peacetaxseven.com /history.html (2439 words)

	Student Work - Deadline in Depth
		Some resisters send the withheld amount to peace groups or medical clinics or schools for their own peace of mind, but they are still liable for the tax evasion.
		In most cases, resisters send a letter of protest to the Internal Revenue Service with their tax form or in place of it.
		Many resisters reduce the amount the federal government takes from earnings throughout the year when they fill their W-4 forms, so they owe the government instead of expecting a refund.
	www.jrn.columbia.edu /studentwork/deadline/2003/taxes-adely.asp (826 words)

	Voices in the Wilderness : War Tax
		Many individuals connected with VitW are personally resisting part or all of their federal income tax, as almost half is directed towards the US military.
		Tax resistance is the most direct way US citizens can avoid being complicit in war.
		The war tax resistance movement got a big boost this afternoon when the well-known environmental activist Julia Butterfly Hill held a press conference at the Federal Building in San Francisco to announce what the National War Tax Resistance Coordinating Committee is calling “the single largest war tax resistance in US history.”
	vitw.org /war_tax (940 words)

	USATODAY.com - 'War on tax' waged against costs of war (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Other tax protesters contend that the Constitution's 16th Amendment, which was adopted in 1913 to give Congress the power to collect income taxes, is illegitimate because it was not ratified by the required three-fourths of the states.
		The result of tax protesters and scofflaws who can't afford to pay or cheat on what they owe is a tax gap: the difference between what should be paid and what the IRS collects.
		Later, he wrote that declining to pay taxes is preferable to enabling "the state to commit violence and shed innocent blood." Thoreau went to jail for a night.
	www.usatoday.com /news/nation/2006-04-13-tax-war_x.htm (1012 words)

	Tax Resistance, printer friendly version
		Gough is part of a small but dedicated group of U.S. citizens known as war tax resisters, people who refuse to pay all or part of their taxes to avoid feeding a war machine they believe has grown out of control.
		The most common method of resistance is refusal to pay the federal telephone excise tax, which was created in 1898 as a means to raise taxes to finance the Spanish-American War and expanded by President Johnson in 1966 to support the Vietnam conflict.
		The phone tax, which puts about $6 billion dollars a year into the federal treasury, is among the most painless ways to resist, primarily because of the bureaucratic gray area between whose job it really is to collect the taxes—the phone companies or the Internal Revenue Service.
	zmagsite.zmag.org /May2004/andersonpr0504.html (1288 words)

	Creating a Non-Violent World through War Tax Resistance
		Many war tax resisters are doing that by donating resisted tax money to peace groups or to people in nations ravaged by war.
		Others are improving their communities by donating resisted tax money to food banks, shelters, health clinics and community organizing projects.
		They are investing resisted taxes in local banks and credit unions to rebuild local economies devastated by military spending.
	www.tea-circle.com /sctfp/anon-violentworld.html (744 words)

	War Tax Resistance: How To Stop Paying For Militarism
		Resisters may also choose to set refused money aside, in Escrow Accounts or Alternative Funds (such as the CMTC Escrow Account administered by NACC), so that while the principle is available to them if the IRS collects, the interest earned on it can be used for human needs.
		The effect is to transfer responsibility for tax payment from the employer to the employee, and to ensure that the employer is not collecting taxes on the government's behalf.
		War Tax Resistance is an act of civil disobedience, and it is wise to understand the possible consequences of this form of direct action for peace before undertaking it.
	seanacc.org /wtr-fly.htm (2341 words)

	National War Tax Resistance Coordinating Committee
		Income taxes and excise taxes are deposited by the government into the general fund and at least half of those monies help to pay for the military budget, including all types of weapons of war and weapons of mass destruction.
		Most war tax resisters are motivated by a combination of reasons such as these and actively work for peace in many other ways too.
		War tax resistance is an act of civil disobedience with a long history in the U.S. The most well-known war tax resister was Henry David Thoreau.
	www.nwtrcc.org /what_is_wtr.htm (358 words)

	AlterNet: The Noble American Traditon of Tax Resistance (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		In 1964, singer Joan Baez made war-tax resistance a national issue when she announced her decision to withhold the 60 percent of her taxes that were tagged to fund the Vietnam War.
		Resistance Strategies Resisting war-taxes can be as simple as filing a blank 1040 with a note of explanation.
		Tax resisters can face civil penalties of 5 to 25 percent on the amount owed (plus compound interest at a rate of around 10 percent).
	www.alternet.org /story/15576 (1218 words)

	Tax Resistance is Nonviolent Civil Resistance \| A Global Call (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		We at the Global Call Iraq Campaign are inspired and strengthened by the courageous moral decision made by many people to withhold all or part of their federal taxes as a protest against the war in Iraq and militarism.
		Tax resisters say refusal to pay all or part of their taxes is an act of civil disobedience.
		As war tax resistors we stand in solidarity with you today as you continue your efforts to bring an end to the military occupation in Iraq.
	globalcalliraq.org /en/node/441 (668 words)

	The Peace Tax Seven
		Supporting your local war tax resister is a great way to voice your conscientious objection and give more weight to their case.
		We are asking to pay all of our taxes, but to have the military part placed in a ring-fenced fund solely for peaceful purposes such as health care, education and non-violent conflict resolution.
		We are seeking a change of current UK tax policy to allow any citizen who conscientiously objects to paying for preparations for war to divert that part of their taxes to a Peace Fund.
	www.peacetaxseven.com (2006 words)

	North Star Writers Group (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		This is hardly a band of left-wing Norquists, but rather people who object to their taxes being spent on war.
		Tax resistance has a long history, with the most dramatic example coming from Gandhi’s struggle for Indian independence.
		The administration claims that the tax cuts have taken the economy from a recession to years of more than 3 percent annual growth.
	www.northstarwriters.com /ri6.htm (642 words)

	The Free Press -- Independent News Media - War Against Iraq
		Lee is part of a small but dedicated group of Americans known as war tax resisters, people who refuse to pay all or part of their taxes to avoid feeding a war machine they believe has grown out of control.
		The phone tax, which drops about $6 billion dollars a year into the federal treasury, is among the most painless ways to resist resistance, primarily because of the bureaucratic gray area between whose job it really is to collect the taxes — the phone companies or the Internal Revenue Service.
		“I think war tax refusal is part of a larger piece of resistance, which is to form a counter-cultural lifestyle,” says Kathy Kelly, co-founder of Voices in the Wilderness, which engages in direct action with civilians in Iraq and a long-time tax resister.
	www.freepress.org /departments/display/13/2004/589 (1250 words)

	insurgent49
		This is also the motto of the War Tax Resister’s League, an organization whose members have refused all or part of their federal taxes since its inception some 60 years ago.
		The number of resisters swelled during the 80s in opposition to the nuclear arms race, as they did during the Viet Nam era, and are beginning to once again.
		War tax resistance was a step she could take to put herself on the line in a similar way as she was asking men to take.
	www.insurgent49.com /button_tax_resistance.html (1547 words)

	War Tax Resistance
		Refusal to pay taxes used to finance unjust wars, along with refusal by soldiers to fight in them, is a direct and potentially effective form of citizen noncooperation, and one that governments cannot ignore.
		For that reason, material, and moral support for war tax refusers — including organizing support committees, raising support funds, and providing legal defense — is an important form of war resistance in itself.
		Therefore, we, the undersigned individuals, believing that war tax refusal under the present circumstances is fully justified on moral and ethical grounds, publicly declare our encouragement of, and willingness to lend support to, those persons of conscience who choose to take this step.
	www.warresisters.org /wtr_complicity.htm (694 words)

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